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• Some needed pushback on feds’ snooping

  22-06-2017 09:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Another day, another revelation about government abuses of surveillance powers and Americans’ privacy. Now, many in Congress are pushing back against such violations.
  The most recent domestic surveillance revelation comes courtesy of WikiLeaks, which describes the CIA’s efforts to hack home, business and public WiFi networks. Once wireless internet networking devices are compromised, government agents “can easily monitor, control and manipulate the Internet traffic of connecte
  
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• Irvine’s Tri Pointe Homes sold to Japanese group for $4.5 billion

  14-02-2026 00:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Tri Pointe Homes, founded by three out-of-work homebuilders in Irvine during the Great Recession, is being sold to the Japanese building materials group Sumitomo Forestry for $4.5 billion, the companies said Friday, Feb. 13.Tri Pointe cited high home costs and mortgage rates, coupled with the state of the U.S. economy, as reasons for the sale, which is expected to close in the second quarter. The shift to Sumitomo also will take the company private.
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• Katie McConnell, of Encinitas, wins “Thriller at Killers” big-wave event

  14-02-2026 00:53 via ocregister.com
  
  The waves were pumping — big, bombing and beautiful.
  For the “Thriller at Killers” surf contest off Todos Santos Island in Ensenada the forecast was a fun event for the world’s best big-wave riders. But when the surfers, a handful from Southern California, showed up for the one-day event on Feb. 7, the waves were twice as big as expected, upward of 30 feet to welcome the competitors.
  “It was just epic. Everyone was so psyched,” said Encinitas surfer Katie McCo
  
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• Trump’s Harvard move reflects one of his go-to tactics: Lawsuits

  14-02-2026 00:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL BARROW
  ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump has played many roles. Real estate developer. Marketing extraordinaire. Reality TV host. Candidate. President — twice.
  Another part has been constant through all of them: plaintiff.
  Trump both threatens lawsuits and files them with aplomb — against individuals, institutions, even the people who elected him. Sometimes the threats are just that, and no lawsuit materializes. And, certainly, Trump has found himself on the receiving end of
  
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• Review: South Coast Repertory pulls out all the stops with ‘Virginia Woolf’

  14-02-2026 00:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Late in the third act of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” a stunned character named Nick says to one of the principal protagonists, Martha, “there’s no limit to you, is there?”
  “No, baby,” she replies. “None.”
  No limit sums up how superbly directed and acted Albee’s pyrotechnics are now on South Coast Repertory’s Segerstrom Stage.
  In repertory with “God of Carnage,” another significant lolla
  
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• Buzz of the Olympics: How drone cams deliver high-pace visuals and add a new dynamic for TV viewers

  14-02-2026 00:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW DAMPF and STEVE DOUGLAS
  CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Standing on a tower overlooking the cliffs of the Cortina downhill course, there is someone who is just as involved in the biggest skiing races of the Winter Olympics as Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson.
  Martin Bochatay is the drone cam pilot for the money shots inside the iconic Tofana schuss, the narrow chute between two walls of Dolomite rock.
  He is part of a team in control of the buzzing machines that are flyin
  
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• Judge gives US 2 weeks to retrieve student deported to Honduras while traveling for Thanksgiving

  14-02-2026 00:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL CASEY and MARK SCOLFORO
  BOSTON (AP) — A college student deported to Honduras while traveling for Thanksgiving in November must be returned to the United States within two weeks, a federal judge in Boston ruled Friday.
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• Warm Valentine’s Day to give way to a ‘cold, blustery and rainy week’

  14-02-2026 00:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Sunny skies on Valentine’s Day are expected to give way to a strong, windy,multi-day storm beginning Sunday, with even weak tornadoes possible, forecasters say, as Southern California weather proves winter is not over just yet.
  “There will be a cold, blustery and rainy week,” said Ariel Cohen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “It’s a big change from this past week.”
  If you’re looking to head to the beach for the holiday weekend, the wea
  
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• New Zealand restricts the spread of a reviled killer’s views by hampering his attempts to gain fame

  14-02-2026 00:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In a near-empty courthouse, in front of almost no one, the appeal by New Zealand’s most reviled killer was heard in muted fashion with little mention of the details of the country’s deadliest mass shooting.
  Such is New Zealand’s desire to smother the racist motivations of Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 Muslims praying at two mosques in the city of Christchurch in 2019. Tarrant, a self-professed white supremacist,
  
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• Kings’ Kevin Fiala injured at Winter Olympics

  14-02-2026 00:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Kings winger Kevin Fiala sustained an apparent and likely serious leg injury at the Milano Cortina Olympic Games.
  Fiala, a 29-year-old Swiss national, was taken from the ice on a stretcher after a hit by Canada’s Tom Wilson late in a match the Canadians led comfortably.
  Canada defeated Switzerland 5-1, which was the score when Fiala and Wilson, a winger for the Washington Capitals, collided and Fiala’s left leg got tangled in the boards with 2:50 left.
  The Kings, who entered the Olym
  
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• US skater Maxim Naumov honors his late parents by completing an Olympic dream he shared with them

  14-02-2026 00:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVE SKRETTA
  MILAN (AP) — The last conversation that Maxim Naumov had with his parents was about following in their footsteps to the Olympics.
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• Malinin melts down, finishes 8th after disastrous free skate

  13-02-2026 23:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Ilia Malinin of the United States reacts after competing while waiting for scores during the men’s free skate program in figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
  Ilia Malinin of the United States falls during the men’s free skate program in figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
  Ilia Malinin of the United States falls during the men’s fre
  
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• Federal agency flags safety shortcomings that ‘exposed’ workers to explosion at US Steel plant

  13-02-2026 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARC LEVY
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal safety agency investigating an August blast at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh that left two workers dead said it found a series of incomplete, outdated or inadequate procedures and practices that “exposed” employees to the explosion, which happened as workers were flushing a gas valve.
  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the company a total of $118,214 and issued 10 citations.
  The blast also injured 11 others
  
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• Alexander: New baseball season, same old refrain

  13-02-2026 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The world according to Jim:
  • Just checking: Have the Dodgers ruined baseball yet? …
  • To hear others tell it, the Kyle Tucker signing on top of the Edwin Diaz signing earlier in the winter was the final straw, the act that almost certainly will lead to a lockout this December and quite likely will lead to a work stoppage next spring. You really think a Players Association that has steadfastly and successfully fought off previous efforts to implement a salary cap will fold this
  
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• A judge says she’ll rule that the US still cannot force states to provide data on SNAP recipients

  13-02-2026 23:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By GEOFF MULVIHILL
  President Donald Trump’s administration cannot force states to hand over detailed information on people who have applied for or received aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a judge said in a tentative ruling Friday.
  San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney last year blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from requiring states to provide the data, including on the immigration status of people who receive benefits and applicants, after
  
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• Activist Corona mom, grieving hit-and-run death of son, keeps his story alive

  13-02-2026 23:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Kellie Montalvo wasn’t sure about this activist thing.
  Montalvo’s 21-year-old son, Benjamin, was fatally struck by a texting, hit-and-run driver just before midnight on June 11, 2020, as he bicycled with friends on Rimpau Avenue in Corona. The impact catapulted him off the windshield and over the car.
  There are two lanes in each direction on that section of Rimpau near Centennial High, with a portion of the right lanes marked for bicyclists, though they are not dedicated bike lanes.
  
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• ‘Gut punch’ — driver who killed Corona bicyclist, 21, getting out after less than 3 years

  13-02-2026 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Already reeling from grief because a son was killed, Corona resident Kellie Montalvo said she and her husband are “infuriated” that the hit-and-run driver who she considers unrepentant is apparently getting released from prison after serving less than three years of a nine-year sentence.
  Neomi Renee Velado, imprisoned on July 26, 2023, was scheduled to be freed by Saturday, Feb. 14, said her attorney, John-Paul Serrao. She was still in custody at the California Institution for Women
  
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• Gifts and soup from ‘Uncle Jeffrey’: The Epstein ties that ended Kathy Ruemmler’s run at Goldman

  13-02-2026 23:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEN SWEET
  NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathy Ruemmler has had a storied legal career. As a federal prosecutor, she helped successfully prosecute Enron executives including Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. She was part of President Barack Obama’s administration, working in various roles for much of his two terms in office, including as White House Counsel.
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• More than one OC surfer didn’t find their way back from Hawaii

  13-02-2026 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Just about every top surfer who grew up in Orange County has gone to Hawaii at one time or another, most many times.
  Hawaii is where the big surf is and has always been a kind of “proving grounds” for the best surfers from all over the world.  Nowadays, there are other big wave locations surfers can get to, but the North Shore of Hawaii is still ground zero when it comes to seeing if ya got it or ya don’t.
  While just about everybody goes over there, most come back. Some mi
  
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• ‘Quad God’ Ilia Malinin falls twice in Olympic disaster, allowing Mikhail Shaidorov to claim gold

  13-02-2026 23:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVE SKRETTA
  MILAN (AP) — American figure skating sensation Ilia Malinin fell twice in a disastrous free skate that sent him tumbling all the way off the podium at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Friday night, allowing Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan to claim a stunning gold medal.
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• UCLA men face big test, opportunity vs. Michigan and Michigan State

  13-02-2026 23:17 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The UCLA men’s basketball team has won five of the last six games, rejuvenating excitement around its season. But the Bruins’ ceiling should be clear after this upcoming stretch.
  UCLA (17-7, 9-4 Big Ten) travels to No. 2 Michigan (23-1, 13-1) on Saturday and No. 10 Michigan State (20-4, 10-3) on Tuesday. Win, and the Bruins all but stamp their NCAA tournament ticket and change the discussion of how long they can dance in March. Lose, and missing March Madness beco
  
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• Trump administration urges nations to call for the withdrawal of a UN climate proposal

  13-02-2026 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By FARNOUSH AMIRI, EDITH M. LEDERER and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting strong action to prevent climate change, including reparations for damage caused by any nation that fails to take action.
  In guidance issued this week to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad, the State Department said it “strongly objects” t
  
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• Conagra ordered to pay $25 million in lawsuit alleging Pam cooking spray caused lung disease

  13-02-2026 22:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Ajury awarded a Los Angeles man $25 million in a lawsuit against Chicago-based Conagra alleging its butter-flavored Pam cooking spray caused a rare chronic lung disease that will require a double lung transplant. 
  The verdict last week in the Superior Court of Los Angeles found that Conagra did not adequately warn consumers about the potential dangers of inhaling fumes from Pam cooking spray containing diacetyl, a butter-flavored chemical linked to respiratory illness. 
  During the tria
  
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• LA County cases retail theft in spotlight amid statewide crackdown

  13-02-2026 22:15 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s effort to crack down on organized retail theft has led to more than 29,000 arrests statewide over the past two years, with Los Angeles-area investigations playing a major role in recovering millions of dollars in stolen goods, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday.
  From October 2023 through September 2025, law-enforcement agencies made 29,060 arrests tied to organized retail crime and referred nearly 22,900 cases for prosecution, according to state officials.
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• Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani aims for fully healthy season on the mound

  13-02-2026 22:15 via ocregister.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — As he enters the ninth season of his MLB career – third with the Dodgers – Shohei Ohtani’s list of accomplishments is long indeed.
  Four MVPs (two in each league), baseball’s first 50-50 season and now two World Series titles.
  What’s left? How about a Cy Young Award?
  “If at the end the result is getting a Cy Young, that’s great,” Ohtani said, speaking to the media after throwing a bullpen session during Friday’s first o
  
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• The knee that continues to haunt Chad Bianco — but really shouldn’t

  13-02-2026 22:12 via ocregister.com
  
  It was June 2020, barely a week after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by police officer Derek Chauvin.
  Tensions were high and would only get worse in the weeks and months to come as a racial justice movement swept the country, fueled in part by the ongoing despair and anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic.
  During a protest in Riverside, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and a group of his deputies addressed the crowd in a mature and sensible manner.
  “We want you all
  
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• City of Orange braces for potential electrical workers strike

  13-02-2026 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Electrical workers are poised to strike in Orange after labor negotiations with the city deadlocked.
  City leaders and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 47, which represents city employees in the maintenance and crafts and water divisions, have engaged in labor negotiations since spring 2025, a city statement said.
  The last contract the city and IBEW Local 47 agreed on ran out in June.
  Negotiations with IBEW Local 47 are “currently at an impasse,” and the union
  
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• Kirby Yates’ career comes full circle with return to the Angels

  13-02-2026 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — Maybe the Angels will get it right with Kirby Yates this time.
  It’s easy to forget that Yates became a two-time All-Star closer only after the Angels designated him for assignment – twice – in 2017.
  There was little reason for anyone to put much faith in Yates back then. He was a journeyman on his third big-league organization and he hadn’t yet fully demonstrated the splitter that became his signature pitch.
  Now, Yates, 38, is back with the Angels on
  
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• Kirby Yates’ career comes full circle with return to Angels

  13-02-2026 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — Maybe the Angels will get it right with Kirby Yates this time.
  It’s easy to forget that Yates became a two-time All-Star closer only after the Angels designated him for assignment – twice – in 2017.
  There was little reason for anyone to put much faith in Yates back then. He was a journeyman on his third big-league organization and he hadn’t yet fully demonstrated the splitter that became his signature pitch.
  Now, the 38-year-old Yates is back with the
  
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• US lawmakers limp to global security summit trailed by political crises at home

  13-02-2026 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES and MATT BROWN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of U.S. lawmakers were trying to make their way this weekend to the Munich Security Conference to assure allies of America’s reliability, but burdened with political crises at home, their entrance to the annual gathering of international leaders was more of a limp than a stride.
  Some didn’t make the trip at all. House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled an official delegation of roughly two dozen House member
  
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